> Shelby Moore wrote:
>> Now I know the XBL proponents want to think that if a <select> is
>> implemented by XBL code as a list of <a> hyperlinks, then the semantics
>> haven't changed because <select> is in the markup, not <a>s. But if I
>> accepted that logic, then I can put on Halloween mask and tell everyone
>> I
>> am Modzilla, and that means it is true. We don't want to create an
>> architecture for a "web of deception".
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> Actually, based on what you say in the beginning, the mask example would
> be: you can put on a mask and act like Modzilla, but underneath you're
> still Shelby (the <select> is putting on a mask of <a>s, but the
> semantics in the markup still say it's a <select>).
Precisely, which is the mask, the <select> or the <a>s? Either way it is
deception. If the markup says I am <select>, and the implementation says
I am list of <a>s, then what am I?? To markup consumers I am a <select>
and to implementation consumers I am <a>s. That is conflation, deception,
and obscurity!
You said it better than I did!
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Kind Regards,
Shelby Moore
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